Ghana - Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 1998, Round 3

Reference ID

GHA-GSS-DHS-1998-v2.0

Year

1998

Country

Ghana

Producer(s)

Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) - Office of the President

Sponsor(s)

Government of Ghana - GoG - Financial Assistance
United States Agency for International Development - USAID - Financial Assistance

Metadata

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Feb 20, 2009

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Data Description

Data File: REC32

Cases	4843
Variable(s)	40
Producer	Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Missing Data	Prior to 2008, missing data and not applicable data were left as blank. These values are not differentiated. The current policy is to identify the missing data as follows: -a coded value would be composed of 9s such that the entire length of the field is filled. For example a code of' '999' would be used for a missing field of three characters. -not applicable or skipped variables are left blank
Processing Checks	All files have been checked for the following: 1. All variables have been clearly defined and labelled 2. All categories (value labels) have been clearly defined 3. All cases have unique identification (no duplicates) 4. The frequencies of expected respondents checked with the actual section and inconsistencies noted. 5. Skip patterns have been verified 6. Structure edits have been performed

Name	Label	Question
hhid	Case Identification

caseid	Case Identification

v310	Living children at first use

v311	Children at first use (grpd)

v312	Current contraceptive method

v313	Current use by method type

v314	Method of periodic abstinence

v315	Month of sterilization

v316	Year of sterilization

v317	Date of sterilization (CMC)

v318	Completeness of information

v319	Years since sterilization

v320	Age at sterilization

v321	Marital duration at steriliz.

v322	Parity at sterilization

v323	Brand of pill used

v325	Cost of pills

v326	Last source for current users

v327	Last source for users by type

v328	Main reason use current source

v337	Months of use of current meth

v361	Pattern of use

v362	Intention to use

v363	Preferred future method

v364	Contraceptive use & intention

v366a	Acceptability of radio message

v366b	Acceptability of TV message

v367	Wanted last child

v369b	First use to space or limit

v372	Shown pill package

v375a	Main reason not using a method

v376	Main reason not to use a meth.

v376a	Would ever use method if marr.

v379	Source known for any method

v380	Source known for any method

v384a	Heard FP on radio last months

v384b	Heard FP on TV last months

v384c	Heard FP newspaper last months

v384d	Heard FP on poster last months

v384e	Heard FP brochures last months